On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:20 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>>>> Mirroring apparently also >>>>>> requires some client changes. >>>>> >>>>> Mirrors can be used as long as you manually point a mirror when using >>>>> them. We we are working on making the >>>>> switch automatic. >>>> >>>> I think we've talked briefly about this before, but let me reiterate >>>> that getting this right from a security point of view is quite a bit >>>> harder than it at first appears, and IMHO it is worth getting right. >>> >>> FWIW, Martin has added a section about mirror authenticity in the PEP: >>> >>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#mirror-authenticity >> >> This is more-or-less what was discussed earlier, and from what's >> described here I think the concerns I voiced stand. What's the right >> way to do disclosure on this sort of issue? > > I would recommend discussing it in Distutils-SIG and proposing a > change to that PEP.
I've noticed that I don't have a lot of success in shifting this kind of debate, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to publicly discuss vulnerabilities in something that may wind up being implemented as-is, but it's up to you guys. Geremy Condra _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com